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Four people die as gold mine collapses in Nyatike

Residents at the site where miners were buried alive in Nyatika. (Caleb Kingwara, Standard)

At least four gold miners were killed and sixteen others injured after a gold mine wall collapsed at Osiri Matanda in Nyatike, Migori County.

The authorities attributed the Wednesday evening accident to the activities going on in the tunnel and the weak walls.

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